Ultrasones $1,499 Dollar HEADSET

Ultrasones

$1,499 Dollar

HEADSET

==========================

Edition 8 makes it special, I guess...

Engadget had this story that I JUST-COULD-NOT-BELIEVE.

Now I like Hi-Tech Gadgets just as much as the Next Guy, but really. You have to at least Read about this puppy.

Link Below

==========================
The orig URL topped at 100 chars (tsk-tsk)

This is much better: http://tinyurl.com/bwz654
==========================

Wingman

==========================

What and Why is JQUERY

============
Why JQUERY
============

Quote from Site below:

"jQuery is ideal because it can create impressive animations and interactions. jQuery is simple to understand and easy to use, which means the learning curve is small, while the possibilities are (almost) infinite."

===========================================

The Important Parts of the Puzzle:

javascript and Best Practices
Unobtrusive DOM Scripting
The Bottom Line: Accessible, Degradable Content

===========================================

Link Downsized: 78->25 with TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/6bm5s9

--------------------------------------------------------------------

IQUERY Blog Post Screen Cap of Website cited:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mc2master/3274813215/

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/bzkzub

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Wingman, Coding again...

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Sneaky, Sneaky Dell's Hybrid Windows-Linux Laptops

===================================
Sneaky, Sneaky Dell's Hybrid
Windows-Linux Laptops
===================================

Original Source.

Cnet Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10162275-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

===================================
TinyURL Link: http://tinyurl.com/awthsw
====================================

What happens when you cross a Laptop with a Windows and Linux OS?

A faster, more safe and power saving System, that's what

Wingman

====================================

SanDisk’s New Technology

(Picture of Older Technology)

===============================

XBit Tells Us:
SanDisk’s New Technology
Opens Doors to New Capacities of Flash Devices

===============================

XBIT Labs LINK: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/20090210185230_SanDisks_s_New_4_Bits_Per_Cell_Technology_Enables_Unprecedented_Capacities_of_Flash_Devices.html

===============================

Looks Like 64GB/8GB flash memory chips
are just around the Corner

===============================
And speaking about "just around the Corner..."

I have to finish Michio Kaku's "Physics of The Impossible (audible book)" real soon, because Science just can't stand still.

Example is ths Story at Science Daily:

==========================================

Scientists Read Minds

With Infrared Scan:

Optical Brain Imaging Decodes Preference

With 80 Percent Accuracy


ScienceDaily Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210092730.htm

==========================================

John Grisham Close to signing Deal
to release Most of his Book
As Ebooks
Including the Kindle Format.

===============================

Wingman

===============================

Crashed my Fedora installing Ubuntu

Yes, I got a blip on the Hard Drive as I was installing Ubuntu (Which I'm currently using) .

But all my Blogger updating tools are Ready to Rumble.

Lamar, Lamar, Lamar

Lamar Odom and Lakers Shine

Lamar Odom had 28 points and 17 rebounds as he Lead the Lakers to a Win against the Cavaliers and brought the Lakers Home after a 5 game win-streak.

Wingman.

Gene Roddenberry was right: Space, the Final Frontier.

Above you see a typical Web Page. At least, what it is today: WEB 2.0 and counting.

It sort of reminds me of a routine that George Carlin would do about "Living in A Box within a Box".

Here, we'll call it a Waste of Space within the Browser.

The Most Important Part of a Web Page is the Content.
(The Main reason Twitter is so popular is Because it's "Just Content"--No Fluff)

The Problem with The Current State of the Web Page is that it has become a Blog Page.

Which means it gets filtered by the Idea that One Bag Fits All.

And in so doing the Content (which is King Remember) gets cluttered up with Designer Foolery Like Over-Dominant Headers, Footers and the meaningless Blank Space on the Sides for who knows what.



Here's the same page with the Blog Non-Sense taken out. Big Difference , huh.

So why do we put up with this non-sense?

To Please the Blogger Gods???

That's my 2 cents, what's yours?

Wingman, Stuck in A Blog.

=======================

The New Face of hi-rez HD Camcorders

==================================
The New Face of HD Camcorders:

Panasonic HDC-HS300
==================================

From Trusted Reviews:
Link: http://www.trustedreviews.com/camcorders/review/2009/02/07/Panasonic-HDC-HS300/p1

Twitter TinyURL Link: http://tinyurl.com/d7em5n

===================================

People often ask me why do we need so much Storage, like a 2TB and up Hard Drive?

You are Looking at the Answer right Now. A Top-of-the-Line HD Camcorder that pushes the Envelop to the Next Level.

Quoting TrustedReviews: "With a bit of interpolation, still images can be snapped at up to 3,984 x 2,656 pixels, although only when the camcorder is in photo mode. Otherwise, the upper limit is 3,840 x 2,160 pixels...".

This Snow covered branch 8MP Canon Powershot Picture is 3264 x 2448.

Scaled for Blogger to 800 x 600:

The Branch that Gagged Blogger.

The Flickr Link is Here:

(This picture comes from a fill-in link to my Flickr account)

The Max Size at Flickr is 1024 x 768, so you need to triple the Rez to get the Idea of how much detail an HD Camcorder gives you.


No Price stateside yet on the Panasonic Camera, but the reviews are Glowing...

I'll keep you posted:

Wingman.

===================================

Will the Real Kindle 2 Step Forward

=========================================
Will the Real Kindle 2 Step Forward
=========================================

The New, Some say, Cooler Kindle 2 will be announced at
10AM ET Monday morning --
and, maybe Bezos will announce some other colors.

Pictures Leaked on the following Links,
which I got first fromfollowing
Kevin Rose on Twitter and clicking a TinyURL.

Samples of How Good TinyURL's are,
are also linked below,
which will be on my
Twitter Link: http://twitter.com/bigbopper

=========================================
Link To Pictures: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/06/official-looking-kindle-2-pictures-and-pricing-leak-out/
----------------------------------------------------------------
Links for Use on Twitter:
----------------------------------------------------------------
TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/cxbljl

Preview TinyURL: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cxbljl
=========================================

Give Me an Android/DOLL BOT

==========================
Give Me an Android/DOLL BOT

==================================

Wired Magazine tell us
Today Playmates are More Fem-Bot Like
than we'd like to admit:

==================================

Link: http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/st_infoporn_1702
==========================

Link: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/08/31/the-lure-of-the-fembot/
==========================
Link: http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/st_infoporn_1702
==========================

Tonight On FOX (what else: Dollhouse (after Sarah Connor Chronicles)

Link: http://www.dollverse.com
==========================
link: http://www.fox.com/programming/shows/new/dollhouse.htm
==========================

Wingman

==========================

Samsung Memoir 8 megapixels

=============================

Samsung Memoir 8 megapixels

==============================

It was only on Father's Day that I was "pleased as punch" to get a Canon Powershot A580 8 megapixel digital camera.

Head on over to Engadget.com and see what Samsung has released on a t929 Memoir cell phone with T-Moble 3G band (still funky), a full touchscreen, integrated AGPS, full HTML Browser and an 8 megapixel camera with xenon flash.


Sweet!

Link: http://www.engadget.com/

==============================

Keep Your Friends Close, But give them a Little Latitude

Keep Your Friends Close,

But give them a Little Latitude

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10155946-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

===================================
Google Latitude, that is.

A New App for mobile phones lets users
share their location with close contacts
===================================
And:

Google Earth 5 released:
Google Goes Under Water and to Mars!
And Why Google Thinks it Matters.

===================================

Link: http://news.cnet.com/Google-takes-you-under-the-sea%2C-out-in-space/2009-11395_3-6248873.html?tag=rtcol;newsNow

====================================

Wingman, on the Blog

====================================

Mission Control: iTunes Upgrade, We have a Problem!

=====================
Mission Control: iTunes Upgrade,

We have a Problem!

Link: http://cultofmac.com/iphone-update-creates-headaches-for-itunes-users/7721

=====================
Patch 2.2.1
=====================

After updating my iPod Touch yesterday, I went online and googled about the update to see what it was for and found downloader were having problems syncing to iTunes after the update.

Other sites say the problem has something to do with DRM songs.

Other sites suggest that you "Don't Download" Music from iTunes until a New fix is installed, and syncing problem is fixed.

No Word from Apple yet.

Wingman.

Bynum Injured again in Memphis

Bynum Injured in Memphis

Four Screen captures of Half-time replay of Bynum injury.

MRI for Bynum in New York.

Wingman.

Forget Netbook, Think Cloud Book: Wingman.

Forget Netbooks, Think Cloud Book:
according to the Wingman's Blog

First, there's no real definition of a Netbook. So let's say: under $300 price point, uses flash SSD's and no Optical reader.

Oh, and it should be smaller than a traditional Notebook and bigger than (if you can find one) a tablet computer.

I'm not talking Negroponte's One-computer-for-every Child here, the one that was going to be under $100 dollars.

And I don't mean the New $10 laptop being introduced by India next month (Feb. 3), whatever That is.

Link at Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/

and I still see the iPod Touch as the current Cloud Book, but still under powered chip wise, and the battery sucks...

Wingman talking

Post 303 -- 35 Million Netbooks in 2009

=========================
Post 303 --

35 Million Netbooks in 2009
=========================

From Daily TECH:

"The netbook category is the hottest computer category posting the largest growth numbers in all of the market. Many consumers are choosing netbooks because they offer a low price entry into computing. Some are buying netbooks not for the price, but for the portability that the machines offer."

ABI Research also stated that they expected 139 million Netbooks would ship by 2013

========================

Link: http://www.dailytech.com/35+Million+Netbooks+Expected+to+Ship+in+2009/article14060.htm

=========================

Post 302 -- The Road To AMD's 45-nanometer Shanghai.

AMD low-power chips headed for HP, Dell servers

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10149696-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

If you're of the mindset of leting the Chips fall where they may, you're losing business.

Just like SSD's have become a big deal (because of cost savings), so have low power, faster chips in smaller form-factored format.

The Future is for the Fast, low power consumption and enviromentally Green.

Green is In.

Wingman.

Post 301 -- SSD's: The State of Solid State

Like a Senator once said about the deficit, "A SSD GB here a SSD GB there, pretty soon it becomes Serious Storage...".

Well over in Vegas this Week, they had the Storage Visions Conference, where Samsung Electronics has introduced its latest solid state disk (SSD) offering a 100GB "green" hard drive that promises to cut energy costs by 75 percent over typical hard disk drives.

Link: http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3794906/Samsung+Goes+Green+With+New+SSD.htm

Some Facts about SSD's:

High-end HDDs run about $4 to $5 per gigabyte and SSDs are now about $50 to $60 per gigabyte. That's a price point more enterprises are willing to pay for SSD's faster response time over hard drives -- nearly 10 times greater -- The SSD, according to Samsung, uses 1.9 watts of power in active mode and 0.6 in idle compared to HDDs that need about 8 to 15 watts in active and one to two watts when in idle mode. The average data center consumes energy equivalent to 25,000 households and that total energy consumption in data centers doubled between 2000 and 2006 worldwide.

============================
Possible Upcoming MC2 Blogs
============================

Netbooks, Laptops, What's the Difference? AMD says: "Not Much...".

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10148486-92.html
============================

JOLICLOUD: Your Next Netbook OS (Linux modified)????
Link: http://www.jolicloud.com/
============================

Multi-Touch Hack For Android

Link: http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/get-multi-touch-support-on-your-t-mobile-g1-today/
============================

Forbes Says: Seattle is the Most Wired City in America Check out the List Here:
Link: http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/22/wired-cities-2009-tech-wire-cx_ew_0122wiredcities.html
=============================

Wingman Solid, man Solid.

=============================

Post 300 -- Fedora 10, My New-Old Friend

Screenshot of Fedora 10 Desktop

Late last night, in the wee, wee hours (around 2:00 a.m.), Here at Redux Manor, Fedora 10 Joined the Family.

And in the tradition of checking the Web for a Tips and Tricks website, I found the following Post Install Help Page:

Link: http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f10-tips.php#vlc

PIX: Fedora 10 -- Tips and Tricks

The Linux Community is such a helpful bunch that it eases the transition from an older Distribution to a newer one by having a Tips and Tricks (new installation- Guide) to smooth away the bumps and/or pitfalls.

I've been following this Post Install Help Guide since Fedora 6 (and before that the SuSE Linux version).

Just about any Popular Linux Distro has one (Thank heavens, and Thank Community).

What is a Post Install Help Guide, you ask?

The Distribution's Install only tells you so much, and only installs the basic software for General Use --

A One Size Fits Many Approach.

Tips and Tricks goes the Extra mile and tells you about other Repos (repositories--compressed programs tailored to a specific distribution).

Especially about Multimedia Programs that differ from the original distribution's choices.

Example: Most Distros include a generic Media Player called Totem.

Totem is an OK media player (audio/video) with an easy and quick install.

A better choice, with much more versatility is My Favorite: VLC or Videolan.

In the early days, VLC was a bitch to install, with more than 30 dependencies (libraries) needed to fully run the program.

Nowadays, it's a Yum Snap if you have the right Repo, which Tips and Tricks always gives you.

Here's the command line that does the magic:

yum -y install vlc

Sweet.

So for the next few weeks I'll be tweaking Fedora 10 to My Preferences (old habits Are Hard to Break).

Wingman: With Linux, the World is New again.

=====================================
Note: This Blog was created and posted
with the New Fedora 10
=====================================

Post 299 -- Fedora 10 on the Redux Manor Menu

You leave any Operating System on your computer for any length of Time and you start getting Crud.

That's the little bits and pieces of files that don't completely go away like they should.

Defragging your hard drive is good way to get rid of Crud.

Installing a new OS, also gets rid of computer crud.

Which is another reason for using Linux (like I do).

There's always a new Distro of your favorite OS just around the corner.

In Linux Updating the system comes around on a fairly regular schedule (unlike Windows).

If fact, at times you get so comfortable with a certain Distro Version that you skip a release or two.

That has happened here at Redux Manor. I hated upgrading from Fedora Core 6 to Core 8.

Well the time has come to jump to Fedora 10, the latest open source distro from Red Hat.

I''ll be installing 10 this Weekend.

Wingman.

Post 298 The DAY When Justice Needed a Prompt

==============================
Click Picture for You Tube Video
of Bungled Oath
==============================

Judicial Blunder Hear Round the World
==============================

Link: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090121/BLOG8102/901210244/2121?Title=At_heart_of_inaguration__an_oath
==============================

It's Not Hollywood, It's the Inauguration.

So what happens when the Chief Justice Blows his Lines?

They have a D0-Over at the White House.


The only real blemish to an otherwise Wonderful Day For America and The World.

Wingman, shaking his head.

==============================

Post 297 -- England: Good Riddance of Ol' Rubbish

The Brits Do have a Way With Words

We just called him a Lame Duck.

Like the World, they've been paying attention to what happens across the pond, in the Colonies.

Front Pages Around the World
See America as Hopeful.

CNN Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/21/obama.international.press.reaction/

Wingman, Hopeful too.

============================================

Post 296 -- A Day for Obama, A Day for America

A Wonderful Picture of the
Resiliency for America

CNN Coverage of "The EVENT"










The Throng In The Mall




The British Papers


And The French Papers




Wingman,

Allowing the Images of the Moment Speak for themselves.

Tuesday January 20, 2009
6:54
========================

Post 294 -- In 2010, USB 3.0, the Connection Killer?

=======================================
CNet News is telling us
USB 3.0 will crush
eSATA and FireWire
=======================================

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10141810-76.html?tag=rtcol;pop

=======================================

Intel Chip Price Cuts!

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10145251-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

=======================================

Wingman
Note: This post was out of sequence on purpose.

=======================================

Post 295 -- Circuit City Flips Off the Switch

Another Era Closes


by Wingman

Before the the Big Box Computer/Electronics Stores, like Compusa, Frys, Best Buy and Circuit City became popular I used to shop at little Hole-in-the-wall Shops like PC Club.

Before that, I was a semi-regular at the Pomona Fairground's Computer Swap Meet which was open once a month on weekends.

At first I didn't even park in the parking lot (they charged $6 bucks).

Parking instead across the street at the small park next to the Fairgrounds and being much younger, I would hiked to the front gate.

I wasn't the only one who did that back then, after all spending extra savings money for this gadget or that had to be budgeted.

At the very least, to make the entrance fee of $7.00 worth it, I would buy a 50 pack box of 3.5 hd disks. Sometimes two.

You have no Idea how many 50 pack boxes I have that I have not looked at in years.

I bought my first 1995 Linux Disk set at that swapmeet, a four cd boxed set of InfoMagic's Developer's Resource Linux for less than $15.00, which I still have.

After the likes of Compusa and PC Club lured me away from the Computer Swap (which I guess is still going on) I would have what I called the Saturday Two-Store Shopping day.

After work in Ontario, I'd drop in on PC Club and then Compusa to compare prices, and to see (sometimes drool) at the latest computer gadgets.

The two stores were across street from each other in Clairmont. One was mainly for hackers and the other more retail customer oriented.

The Mostly-Retail Outlet, Compusa closed a couple of years later.


Now it's Circuit City, the Mega Store that couldn"t compete in this struggling Economy.

These stores turned a hackers gadgets/plaything interest into something mainstream.

Nice stores, good selection and even some in-store repair work.

I have better hardware than ever thses days because of stores like that. It's been years since I've built my own systems. Like I use to do when I went to the Computer Swap.

The new flat panel HDTV I have in the bedroom came from our local Circuit City store that is closing down too.

Those shopping places, with like-minded customers, were more than just places to buy the latest gadgets.

It was a Place of Circuit City Dreams.

With their closing, I'm afraid part of that dream is gone too.

Wingman.

Note: Because of the Circuit City Closings, Post 294 was bumped. It will appear out of sequence later this week.

Post 293 -- That's a Pretty Big Worm Dude

That's a Pretty Big Worm Dude

In the world of computers, viruses and worms come and go, but this Fella has been infecting machines at a pretty Brisk Pace.

Acccording to the News Post at the The Register.co.uk linked here for details:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/9m_downadup_infections/

"Downadup (the worm's name)" has infected 6.5 million in the last four days.

Bringing the overall total to 9 million.

Of course it attacks a recent patched vulnerability in Windows.

Wingman, glad he's running Linux, again.


Also at the Register:
It looks like AMEX is having security problems too.
Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/20/american_express_website_bug_redux/

Post 292 -- Now You See It Now You Don't

Bird of Prey Cloaks

They keep telling us how many of our Astronauts and Scientists grew up with the wonders of Star Trek and Star Wars and the Great Science Fiction Writers that gave Lift to their imaginations.

A recent book by Michio Kaku called "Physics of the Impossible", tells how close we are to making some of these impossibilities possible.

Kaku's Book Reviewed Here: http://physics.about.com/od/physicsbooks/gr/impossphysics.htm

I'm "reading" it on Audible (my December selection).
Link: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/homepage/AnonHome.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes

Well it looks like another one of those
"Trekkie" things
is about to cross-over into reality:
The Cloaking Device.

From www.ScienceDaily.com
======================
Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090115164530.htm

Wingman, fading out...
Sidenote: A sad farewell to Ricardo Montanban, who I think his "Khan" on Star Trek Movie The Wrath of Khan SAVED the series...

Post 291 -- Will the Apple NetBook Please Sign In?

Will the Apple NetBook
Please Sign In?

I'm as guilty as anyone else. MacWorld Expo came and went and we were left pondering,

"Where is the World is the Mac's NetBooK?".

We were looking for something between the iPhone and the Air, and it never showed...

Then today I read a story on The Register about Sun Microsystems entrenchment and acquisition of Tools to enpower Cloud Computing. And their move to join the ranks of Net Storage Poviders. The reduced need for a full-Bore OS, and Mega-Storage.

It was when I sent an email to myself about this gathering of tools by Sun: Open Solaris, Java, MySQL, and New Cloud Software like Q-Layer and PyMonkey, (which reminded me a lot like Rocks Roll configuration program for their Simple Linux Cluster Creator), that something Edgar Allen Poe once said rang a bell.

The best way to hide something was to put it in plain sight.

I blinked and I saw Apple's NetBook. I was holding it in my hands and I had been using it for several months now.

It was the iPod Touch.

PymonkeyDev Link: http://www.openvapps.org/confluence/display/PMDEV/How+to+Write+a+Class+in+PyMonkey

Wingman, really out!